Viacom Is Said To Get Over $600 Million A Year From DirecTV — Viacom Inc. (VIAB) will get more than $600 million a year from DirecTV (DTV) in programming fees under their new seven-year agreement, up at least 20 percent from the previous terms, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Apple Yanks Privacy App From The App Store — Apple Pulls Bitdefender's ‘Clueful’ Privacy App From The App Store — Back in May of this year, Internet security firm Bitdefender launched an App and service designed to help iOS users get a grip on what the apps installed on their mobile devices may be up to.

Fred Wilson is wrong about “Free” — Fred Wilson is one the smartest, most genuine people in the tech business. He has a huge fan club that he has earned by being radically transparent and consistently engaging in public debate. I have emailed with him a few times over the years …

Using the new Office with touch — Editor's note: Windows 8 provides a number of platform capabilities for enabling highly responsive touch support in applications, ranging from hardware accelerated graphics and improved touch targeting to the a new app platform that makes it easy to build touch-optimized Windows 8-style apps.

California Starts Up a Privacy Enforcement Unit — Watch out, Silicon Valley, there's a new startup in town and its gunning for you. California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced Thursday she's created a unit intended to actually enforce federal and state privacy laws.

Is Kickstarter selling dreams? — My theory, when it comes to buying lottery tickets, is that if you have disposable income to spare, then often the dreams and fantasies that accompany your lottery ticket purchase are in and of themselves worth $1. This is true not because dreams and fantasies …